Rewriting the clock and calendar
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Master of Strange French Revolution trends
misslily The traditional seven-day week was replaced by a ten-day cycle, drastically reducing rest days.
misslily A new calendar replaced traditional month names with poetic descriptions of the seasons and weather.
misslily Spin the decimal dial to discover how the French Revolution reinvented time.
Calendar math: To fit 365 days into 10-day weeks, the French added five or six 'complementary days' at the end of the year for national festivals.
A system of timekeeping based on decimal units rather than standard hours, minutes, and seconds. In 1793, France adopted this system, dividing each day into ten hours composed of one hundred minutes.
Why was the traditional seven-day week replaced with a ten-day week during the French Revolution?
What was the name of the hot summer month in the French Republican Calendar when Robespierre was overthrown?
What did the French Republican Calendar use to replace traditional Catholic saint days?
What did the French revolutionaries call the extra five or six days added to the end of the calendar year?
Which poet designed the weather-themed month names for the French Republican Calendar in 1793?
In what year did Napoleon Bonaparte finally abolish the French Republican Calendar and restore the traditional Gregorian calendar?